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  • Online Evening Prayer

    I’ll be leading Evening Prayer this evening at 5 pm in a Google Hangout. If you want to join in you need to have a Google+ account (which is free) and a webcam. Those who wear headphones offer a blessing to all the others. Here’s the liturgy and the instructions. EP Incarnation Saturday 7 January…

  • We have a new priest!

    Great rejoicing at St Mary’s last night. The Rev Chucks Iwuagwu was made a priest by Bishop Gregor in a service of great happiness. Priestings are always emotional services. It is always a long journey to get to that moment and that in itself is but a turning point or milestone in a lifetime’s pilgrimage…

  • Blue Veils and Golden Sand

    Somehow Epiphany seems the perfect time to revisit Delia Derbyshire’s Blue Veils and Golden Sand. Amazing, wonderful and mysterious.

  • BBC Prayer for the Day – Epiphany

    Good morning. Today is the Feast of the Epiphany – the story of the strange visitors from the East arriving in Bethlehem to present their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the infant Jesus and his probably rather startled parents. There is so much we don’t know about these Eastern visitors. Though we might…

  • BBC Prayer for the Day – Simeon the Stylite

    Good morning. Today is the feast day in the western church of a rather odd saint – Simeon the Stylite who is famous most of all for living for thirty nine years on a small platforms at the top of a pillar. Simon was the greatest of the saints whose asceticism drove them to what…

  • BBC Prayer for the Day – the Arab Spring

    Good morning. It is a year ago today since the death of Mohammed Bouazizi. His name won’t be known by many people but though he was a rather humble street vender he was surely one of the most influential people of recent years. Mohammed Bouazizi was the person who set fire to himself in protest…

  • BBC Prayer for the Day – Hobbits and Creativity

    Good morning. Today is the anniversary of the birth of JRR Tolkein the great master myth-maker and storyteller. It is a day for remembering the wisdom of wizards and the bravery of hobbits and for celebrating a writer of extraordinary tales and fables. Fantasy writing and myth-making, like all good storytelling only achieve greatness when…

  • BBC Prayer for the Day – 2 January 2011

    Good morning. At New Year I ask people in my congregation to bring something with them to church for a special blessing. I ask them to bring their diaries and at the end of the service they all hold them aloft as I ask God’s blessing on them. It is a way of getting people…

  • Predictions for 2012

    Here are my New Year predictions for 2012. The Diocese of Edinburgh will have a new bishop by this time next year. (There is currently an Episcopal vacancy). However, they will have been unable to select a bishop from the first list and will end up chosing a bishop from a new short list prepared…

  • Prayer for the Day – BBC Radio 4

    Oops, nearly forgot to post this. I was doing Prayer for the Day this morning on Radio 4. You never lose a sense of excitement at the thought of the nation dropping collectively to its knees. This is what I said: Good morning. I’m speaking from a studio which is just a few yards from…